Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing Alumnae Collection
Category
Archival
Portrait Picture
Nursing
Commemorative and Communication Artifacts
Classification
Archival, Images
Portrait Picture
Nursing
Commemorative and Communication Artifacts
Accession Number
001043002
Description
Black-and-white panoramic photograph of the 1935 Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing graduate nurses; shows 28 graduate nurses with Ann Baillie, the Superintendant of the Training School in front of the original nurses' home (now the Ann Baillie Building); unframed; each holding a large bou…
Black-and-white panoramic photograph of the 1935 Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing graduate nurses; shows 28 graduate nurses with Ann Baillie, the Superintendant of the Training School in front of the original nurses' home (now the Ann Baillie Building); unframed; each holding a large bouquet of flowers and nursing certificate case; the name of each nurse has been written on the back of the photograph (some are marked "dead").
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Original owner Mabel McColl, Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing Class of 1935, and donated by her daughter Kaye Wilson.
The photograph is somewhat faded; the photograph is very curled from being stored rolled
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Person
Website
Reference Comments
Marilyn Boston
Kingston Health Sciences Centre website, "KGH School of Nursing," (https://kingstonhsc.ca/kgh-school-nursing)
Research Facts
Most of the graduation photos were done by Marrison Studios of Kingston, but they are usually stamped with the name on the photo.
The first official graduating class of the Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing was in 1888; the school was created in order to educate nurses as the demand for them increased, as well as providing a labour force to the hospital. When the first nurses graduated, they were given a certificate of completion, twenty five dollars, and a nursing medal. Over the years, nurses were sometimes given pins and/or rings or other memorabilia to commemorate their graduation from the school.